Battleground State Early Voting Data

ABC News just released some interesting early voting numbers for seven key swing states. Make your own conclusions, but it appears the percentages of Democrats and Republicans voting early this election versus 2008 are quite telling in most of these states. NOTE: New Hampshire does not allow early voting. The states of Colorado, Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, Nevada, Virginia and Iowa were included in the data. ALSO OF NOTE: North Carolina was left out. Does ABC News no longer consider NC a swing state? LASTLY OF NOTE: The overall early voting numbers are down in Nevada, Virginia and Wisconsin; they are up in Colorado, Ohio, Florida and Iowa.

See the data below:

COLORADO

2012: 1,872,987

Dem — 34.3% Rep — 36.1% Other — 29.6%

2008: 1,704,820

Dem — 37.7% Rep — 35.% Other — 26.4%

FLORIDA

2012: 4,469,393

Dem — 42.9% Rep — 39.1% Other –18%

2008: 4,377,774

Dem — 45.6% Rep — 37.3% Other — 17.1%

IOWA

2012: 640,248

Dem — 42.3% Rep — 32.1% Other — 25.6%

2008: 481,179

Dem — 46.9% Rep — 28.9% No/Other — 24.2%

NEVADA (reports numbers by county — numbers given for Clark County, the most populous in the state)

2012: Clark County – 484,363

Dem — 47% Rep — 33% Other — 19%

2008: Clark County – 561,776

Dem — 52.0% Rep — 30.6% Other — 17.4%

The 2012/2008 early vote numbers in battlegrounds that don’t register voters by party affiliation: